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The Story of A: Anger and Ambivalence in Women's Autobiographical Writing.

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Title/Author:	The Story of A: Anger and Ambivalence in Women's Autobiographical Writing./
Author:	Grenert, Alison Anne.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2019,
Description:	336 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 81-04, Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International81-04A.
Subject:	English literature. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=22622012
ISBN:	9781687984173

The Story of A: Anger and Ambivalence in Women's Autobiographical Writing.
Grenert, Alison Anne.

The Story of A: Anger and Ambivalence in Women's Autobiographical Writing. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2019 - 336 p.

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 81-04, Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Rochester, 2019.

This item is not available from ProQuest Dissertations & Theses.

My project reads Su Friedrich's Sink or Swim, Lynne Hershman-Leeson's Confessions of a Chameleon, Cheryl Dunye's Janine, The Potluck and the Passion, and Greetings from Africa, and Michelle Citron's Daughter Rite, as autobiographical acts that document and testify to the ordinariness of woman hating, and the internalization of woman hating by women. Woman hating is a constant presence in the lives of all women, reminding us that our experiences and our thoughts and feelings about our experiences do not matter. Through a series of close readings of the language these women use to tell their stories, as well as a formal analysis of these films, the project proposes a vocabulary for a political analysis of feelings. Critical reviews of these films and videos are predominantly written in the language of theoretical abstraction. Following Laura Mulvey, specifically her use of psychoanalysis as a political weapon, feminist film scholars have read and continue to read these works for the purpose of articulating alternative theories to traditional, male coded, understandings of cinematic identification, subjectivity, and spectatorship. I depart from this path and use my experience to make sense of why we, as women, continue to swallow our feelings, especially when doing so is against our best interests. My use of ordinary language throughout is a conscious choice, a political gesture, and a radical intervention. What might we discover in the act of sitting with and making sense of, in writing, uncomfortable feelings with the language we already have at our disposal? Combining feminist literary and cultural criticism, such as the work of bell hooks, Audre Lorde, and Adrienne Rich, with my personal narration, The Story of A shows how theoretical abstraction limits our understanding of the films and videos as living texts, texts which speak to us and are about us. In addition, the project discusses how the continued use of and reliance on the language of theoretical abstraction in academia functions to diminish the value of bodily knowledge acquired by women socialized to manage the feelings and take care of others. The women in these films are angry because of and despite the violence and threats of violence directed toward women who express anger as a response to our systematic oppression by white men as a class. These women are all sick and tired of choosing silence and complacency. Echoing Audre Lorde, specifically her anecdotal discussion of anger as an appropriate response to racism, these women show how anger is both an appropriate and rational response to woman hating, even when women are doing the hating. Women internalize the hatred of men and turn it against themselves and other women, a theme explore throughout the project. The internalization of woman hating and, the strategies women use to express and censor their anger while navigating interpersonal relationships bring the chapters together. We recognize woman hating by noticing our physiological sensations while studying these films and videos, and, our thoughts and feelings about those sensations. It is not enough to track and name our feelings. In addition, we strive to read our feelings and thoughts about our feelings against the constant presence of woman hating given by the institutions that support, maintain, and encourage it: to wit, the heteronuclear family structure, the institution of motherhood, the language of dieting and weight loss, and segregation based on race and class.Collectively experienced and publicly expressed, these texts testify to women's anger as a force which can be harnessed for the purpose of an understanding solidarity among all women not previously admitted to public discussion. These texts encourage us to listen with our bodies, to make sense of and articulate, in words, our physiological experience of woman hating. The incorporation of the critic's experience while studying these works encourages the development and discovery of a vocabulary capable of accounting for and articulating the politics of women's lived experience.

ISBN: 9781687984173Subjects--Topical Terms:

516356
English literature.
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ambivalence

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